May the Fourth Be With You

• amplication

  149 13,417 10.0 TypeScript

  🔥🔥🔥 Open-source backend development platform. Build production-ready services without wasting time on repetitive coding.

  

So I thought today would be the best time to recreate that GraphQL API. Using tools like Amplication, ChatGPT, and SWAPI. A lot has changed since 2015, and we'll build this backend together in a breeze!

• swapi-graphql

  5 1,033 3.0 JavaScript

  A GraphQL schema and server wrapping SWAPI.

  

My first introduction to GraphQL was roughly 7 years ago, about a year after it was initially announced by Facebook. My first taste was using the "SWAPI," The Star Wars API, GraphQL wrapper that the team at Facebook created. You can view the source code for it here. It was an eye-opening experience, GraphQL felt like a game changer, but I only had an excuse to use it once joining Amplication.

• SurveyJS

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  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• may-the-fourth-be-with-you

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Then, inside the scripts folder, create a file called download.ts. This file will be a scraper of the Star Wars API so we have all the details of our characters, films, ships, and more. However, rather than creating it from scratch, we will modify the scraper script that Facebook created for their version of the GraphQL API. Most changes are just adding typing data as we write code in TypeScript rather than JavaScript. So rather than reviewing all of the changes, just copy and paste the code from here.

• blog-sample-projects

  5 1 4.3 TypeScript

  Source code for projects showcased on the Amplication blog!

  

Finally, the source code for this project is available on GitHub.

• docker

  153 518 0.0 Go

  Docker - the open-source application container engine (by microsoft)

  

It's finally time to seed our database with all the data we have. First, we'll need a database to seed into, but Amplication makes that easy. Included by default in the server folder is a file called docker-compose.db.yml with the configuration required to spin up a PostgreSQL instance. When you run the backend locally, it'll be configured to connect to this instance. You must have Docker installed and running. If you need to set up Docker, check out their getting started guide.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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